# Extract Text from Your PDF and Image Files with Apache Tika

DevFeed: [Extract Text from Your PDF and Image Files with Apache Tika](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/extract-text-from-your-pdf-and-image-files-with-apache-tika-21847.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/blog/2026/06/extract-text-from-your-pdf-and-image-files-with-apache-tika/>)

Author: Nic Raboy

Published: 2026-06-13T00:45:07Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Nic Raboy](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nic-raboy.md>)

Topics: [Docker Compose](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker-compose.md>), [Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker.md>), [container](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/container.md>), [AI search](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-search.md>)

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## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to deploy Apache Tika with Docker or Docker Compose and use it to extract text from PDF, image, and other document formats. The extracted text can provide plaintext context for local AI tools and RAG workflows.

## Source excerpt

With AI becoming increasingly popular in everything, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) becoming a requirement in everyone's organization, how you're providing context to the AI tools becomes im... The post Extract Text from Your PDF and Image Files with Apache Tika appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.